The Emerald Isle was brown and blasted. Only fables spoke of a green Ireland long ago. But young Flynn and Joanna treasured those tales of myth and magic, of bold kings and terrible giants, until Joanna's father betrothed her to an ignorant pig farmer, and she ran away. She fled to the Glowing Lands, certain that none would follow. But there the fabric of time itself was torn: Joanna plunged into the distant past--and into the lair of Cormac the Wolfking. Flynn dared to search for her, but the shifting curtain of time sent him to Tara, where a usurper ruled from Cormac's throne. And while Flynn was caught up in the struggle for the crown, Joanna fell under the Wolfking's enchantments....